Sixth Sence technology

1. Definition of Sixth Sense Technology
Sixth Sense Technology integrates digital information into the physical world and
its objects, making the entire world your computer. It can turn any surface into a
touch-screen for computing, controlled by simple hand gestures. It is not a
technology which is aimed at changing human habits but causing computers and
other machines to adapt to human needs. It also supports multi user and multi
touch provisions. Sixth Sense device is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and
a cell phone—which acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the
information stored on the web. The current prototypecosts around $350. The Sixth
Sense prototypeis used to implement several applications that have shown the
usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system
What is Sixth Sense?
Figure 2.1: Six Senses
Sixth Sense in scientific (or non-scientific) terms is defined as Extra Sensory
Perception or in short ESP. It involves the reception of information not gained
through any of the five senses. Nor is it taken from any experiences from the
past or known. Sixth Sense aims to more seamlessly integrate online
information and tech into everyday life. By making available information
needed for decision-making beyond what we have access to with our five
senses, it effectively gives users a sixth sense.

2. Introduction of Sixth Sense Technology
'Sixth Sense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world
around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact
with that information the hardware components are coupled in a pendant like
mobile wearable device. The Sixth Sense prototypeis comprised of a pocket
projector, a mirror, colored marker and a camera. The camera, mirror and projector
is connected wirelessly to a blue tooth smart phone device that can easily fit into
the user's pocket. A software then processes the data that is collected by the
capturing device and produces analysis. The software that is used in sixth sense
device is opensource type
Gesture Recognition
It is a technology which is aimed at interpreting human gestures with the help of
mathematical algorithms. Gesture recognition technique basically focuses on the
emotion recognition from the face and hand gesture recognition. Gender
recognition technique enables humans to interact with computers in a more direct
way without using any external interfacing devices. It can provide a much better
alternative to text user interfaces and graphical user interface which requires the
need of a keyboard or mouse to interact with the computer. An interface which
solely depends on the gestures requires precise hand posetracking. In the early
versions of gesture recognition process special type of hand gloves which provide
information about hand position orientation and flux of the fingers. In the Sixth
Sense devices colored bands are used for this purpose. Once hand posehas been

3. captured the gestures can be recognized using different techniques. Neural network
approaches or statistical templates are the commonly used techniques used for the
recognition purposes. This technique has an high accuracy usually showing
accuracy of more than 95%. Time dependent neural network will also be used for
real time recognition of the gestures
APPLICATION
The sixth sense technology finds a lot of application in the modern world. The
sixth sense devices bridge the gap by bringing the digital world into the real world
and in that process allowing the users to interact with the information without the
help of any machine interfaces. Prototypes ofthe sixth sense device have
demonstrated viability, usefulness and flexibility of this new technology.
According to the words of its developers the extend of use of this new device is
only limited by the imagination of human beings
The sixth sense recognizes the objects around us and displays the information
relating to those objects in a real time environment. The sixth sense technology
allows the user to interact the information through hand gestures. This is a quiet
efficient way compared to the text and graphic based user interface. It has the
potential to form the transparent user interface for accessing the information
around
APPLICATIONS

4. The Sixth Sense prototype implements several applications that
demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system.
The Sixth Sense device has a huge number of applications. The following are
few of the applications of Sixth Sense Technology.
1. Make a Call
2 . Call up a map

5. 3. Check the time

7. 4. Create multimedia reading experiences
5. Drawing application

8. 6. Zooming features
7. Getproduct information

9. 8. Getbook information

10. 9. Take pictures

11. 10. Get flight updates
11. Feedinformation on people